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by thfuran 6mo ago
Ban them, demand GitHub et al take down the illegal repos, hit up Microsoft for records of everyone who ever downloaded them, hosting providers for customer records, and ISPs for lists of customers with VPN-shaped traffic between themselves
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by thfuran 6mo ago
>if something unexpected happens crash the process There are some expectations where that's a reasonable response to a violation, but there are many expectations where the violation implies a bug elsewhere and crashing the process w
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by thfuran 6mo ago
Nice, turbo button and all.
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by thfuran 6mo ago
It better have been, considering what they charge and how long they take to come out with new ones.
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by thfuran 6mo ago
Modern patent law came from 15th century Venice, where in the 13th century the glassmaker’s guild took trade secrecy so seriously that they decided that any glassworker who left the city without permission was to be hunted down and killed i
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by thfuran 6mo ago
I'm pretty sure git is industry standard almost entirely entirely because GitHub exists. And I very much disagree that the UX is clean. The cli is more than a bit of a mess.
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by thfuran 6mo ago
No, you create version 1.4.19, which fixes a bug in 1.4.18.
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by thfuran 6mo ago
ICE cars catch fire at a far higher rate than BEVs.
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by thfuran 6mo ago
What about group 5: Actually, we're just simulating consciousness too.
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by thfuran 6mo ago
And even if it is provably possible to do, that doesn't mean it's easy. That's kind of the basis of encryption.
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by thfuran 6mo ago
Does that mean that no non-post-quantum encryption was ever actually encryption because in 20 years someone will be able to decrypt things?
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by thfuran 6mo ago
Trains bring people who drink water.
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by thfuran 6mo ago
Lobbying must be allowed to exist. You bringing issues to the attention of your representative or asking them to change some policy is lobbying. It is even very useful to allow organizations to lobby politicians. For example, I want EFF to
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by thfuran 6mo ago
I don't want my computer to make human mistakes.
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by thfuran 6mo ago
It was pretty well established scientifically in 1900 that increasing atmospheric CO2 would result in increasing global temperature, but I don't think it was really in the public awareness for many decades. "Global warming" w
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by thfuran 6mo ago
We can always add more funding, but at some point it must be admitted that our system does not efficiently turn funding into education.
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by thfuran 6mo ago
Unfortunately, some markdown renders differently when copied in vs when typed directly in teams.
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by thfuran 6mo ago
Yeah, it improves mean (but not median) access time by using more memory.
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by thfuran 7mo ago
Why not? Because you can get stronger guarantees of correctness and consistency out of a typical code formatter, which will also probably run about a million times faster.
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by thfuran 7mo ago
Why would you use an LLM to format your code?
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by thfuran 7mo ago
Google no longer cares much about quotes. Sometimes it’ll take them seriously and sometimes not.
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by thfuran 7mo ago
Even if the Apollo program was similarly politically motivated, it at least was seriously cutting edge science and engineering. I mean, there were many people born before the Wright brothers’ first flight watching the moon landing on TV. Ba
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by thfuran 7mo ago
I guarantee you that a lot more people would be willing to put up with it for $10 million a year.
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by thfuran 7mo ago
The last one is AR not VR, and I agree it's much more likely to go mainstream.
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by thfuran 7mo ago
You think it’s unreasonable to believe that expectation of privacy ought to apply differently to the general population than it does to government officials carrying out their duties? Would you also say it’s inconsistent for me to support F
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by thfuran 7mo ago
Brightening the image may make the iso noise easier to see, but it doesn't create it.
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by thfuran 7mo ago
https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/indicators/fossil-fuel...
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by thfuran 7mo ago
Why would you knowingly generate invoices that are sometimes wrong? That’s probably illegal and certainly going to be a pain in the ass. Why make a critical business function dependent of the availability of an external service when you cou
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by thfuran 7mo ago
>vs. something inherently sinister This is inherently sinister.
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by thfuran 7mo ago
The further you go in that direction, the more you have to include personal circumstances and values and the less useful it is for general comparison. Of course, the whole premise of looking at just average net income is a bit odd, so looki

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